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UK rental firm Facelift was recently brought in to provide access to maintenance crews carrying out essential works on the Carthusian Monastery of St Hugh's Charterhouse in the Weald of Sussex.

Socage will be showing its restyled and renamed Forste range of platforms at SAIE to test the market's response. The Forste range represents two things to Socage: continuing innovation and a commitment to the Forste Association, a heart disease charity.

Austrian platform manufacturer Palfinger took fundraising to new heights when it provided a WT 530 jumbo access platform for the annual jumble sale of the Austrian Lions Club of Mattsee-Trumerseen.

Nationwide Platforms has taken delivery of its latest large truck mounted platform, a 70 m Bronto S70 XDT. This follows the investment in an 84 m Bronto before the summer.

Australian truck-mount specialist Nifty-Lift has introduced a new 13m working height insulated EWP (elevating work platform) model, which features a 270deg articulating fly boom.

Swiss rental firm Maltech has added three new Bronto Skylift truck mounted units to its fleet.

CTE is launching the next machine in its "tailored performance" line at the Vertikal Days exhibition UK. The ZED 20.2 is an evolution of the company's ZED 20C designed to make it easier for operators to carry out their work.

At its recent distributor conference Time showed two new lines of light duty and heavy-duty Versalift's.

The UK's Nationwide Platforms has added an 84m Ruthmann truck mounted platform to its fleet following increased demand for such a product from the UK rental market.

The Kurdistan Region of Iraq has completed a €10 million order for 266 CTE truck-mounted telescopic platforms from Ster Group, regional representative of Italian manufacturer CTE Group.

The Skyking division of the UK's King Highway Products Limited has developed a new 14m working height platform in conjuction with Loglogic for use on its Softrak off-road vehicle. The machine will be officially launched at the UK show Vertikal Days on 27 and 28 June at Haydock Park nr Liverpool.

As promised Ruthmann has unveiled the first model in its Height Performance range, designed to provide users with a truck mounted machine with a high performance:price ratio. The new 46m working height model, Steiger T460, features some of the engineering and material technologies employed on the Steiger T330 - a recent winner in the 2012 International Awards for Powered Access (IAPA). In particular the multibend profile of the boom, which is made from high strength, fine-grained steel.

Socage's new 32m platform on a 7.5t truck chassis is designed to compete in the German speaking parts of Europe and is of particular interest to its Russian importer, Chaika Service, which has already sold 250 Socage platforms.

Power Lift UK, which recently became the UK dealer for the Spanish company Movex, has received its first platform. The Movex P130TL Land Rover mounted platform has started its working demonstration tour so that Power Lift can monitor customer feedback.

Italian manufacturer Socage will show a new compact 32m machine at Intermat mounted on a 7.5t chassis. The DAJ332 has a lightweight hydraulic jib, which, Socage said, gives it the ability to carry out boom articulations that a standard double articulated platform could not perform.

Italian rental company Vernazza Autogru has taken delivery of its second Socage TJJ70 truck mounted access platform as part of its 2012 fleet expansion plans.

Multitel has confirmed that it will launch three new platforms at the Intermat show in Paris, as well as showing updated versions on two others.

The 46m working height Steiger T460 will be the first in Ruthmann's new range of truck mounted Height Performance machines launched at Intermat.

Palfinger Platforms has launched two new models as part of its drive for expansion in the aerial platform market.

German manufacturer to begin programme of new truck-mounted platform launches at Intermat